NPR: Record Turnout for New Hampshire Primary

Record Turnout for New Hampshire Primary

Give residents of New Hampshire a little good weather and a couple of exciting contests and they show up for their primary in record numbers.

Election experts are predicting a turnout of 500,000 people to vote - 280,000 for Democrats and 220,000 for Republicans. It's a 48 percent turnout of all those eligible to vote in the state. All these totals break records set in 2000 of 430,000 votes cast and a 42 percent turnout.

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